The president claimed Brzezinski once visited his Mar-a-Lago golf
estate in Florida while bleeding because of a face-lift.

"I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't
watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with
Psycho Joe, came... to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New
Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me," Trump tweeted. "She
was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"

Trump’s claims about Brzezinski are unverified — there is no
proof the situation he described ever occurred, though there are
photos of
Scarborough at Mar-a-Lago on New Years Eve.

“Typically following a face-lift a patient is going to have some
swelling and some bruising — those are the common things that can
occur,” he said.

Ishii usually recommends that his patients wait a couple of
weeks before going out in public, but said bleeding is only
likely to happen within a day or two after a procedure. And even
then, it's rare to see any significant amount of blood
unless a patient were to bend over or exert themselves,
raising their blood pressure during those initial recovery days.

“You have fresh suture lines, so like all surgery fresh suture
lines can bleed,” Ishii said. “It'd bleed a little bit, but
it wouldn’t be profuse. If this person [Brzezinski] truly did
have a lot of bleeding, then you've got to think maybe the person
might have had the face-lift yesterday and then was bending over
and bled at some point. But short of that, it's probably not
likely to happen.”

Ishii estimates, however, that 3 or 4% of patients develop a
little blood clot under the skin after surgery — this is called a
hematoma, and generally has to be removed by a doctor.
It happens because a face-lift involves elevating the skin
from an underlying layer called the fascia, which is what
actually gets tightened in a typical procedure. Once the fascia
is pulled tight, the skin is retraced onto it, and any
excess skin is removed.

“Whenever large bodies of tissue are elevated, you can develop a
hematoma,” Ishii said. It is important to note, however, that
it's not known whether Brzezinski experienced this — or even got
a face-lift at all.

According to media reports, Donald Trump used to be friendly with
Brzezinski and Scarborough, who are currently engaged to be
married. Vanity Fair even quoted
Scarborough describing an instance in which Jared Kushner and
Donald Trump each offered to officiate the couple's wedding
at the White House. But the relationship between the MSNBC hosts
and the president has since turned sour.

The tweet Brzezinski fired back after Trump’s statement about her
face-lift shows the current state of animosity between the two: